Antagonista Manifesto

"When injustice becomes law,resistance becomes duty."

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" -- Mario Savio

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Welcome to Anything that defies my sense of reason.... Class antagonism of a New World Order.

....because words will always retain their power, offer the means to meaning and, for those who'll listen, the enunciation of truth, and because being sleepwalked into fascism is not an option.

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"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers." -- Article 19

Words of Wisdom

"Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem." - Howard Zinn

"If the truth can be told in a way so as to be understood, it will be believed." - Terence McKenna

"The eternal fight is not many battles fought on one level but one great battle fought on many different levels." - The Antagonist

"Besides, I think it's time to abolish politicians entirely and let everbody participate in self-government via Internet. We needed representatives in the 18th Century, because we couldn't all go to Washington. Meanwhile, times changed and our "representatives" have sold us out to the corporations, as we in the majority party all agree, whatever our differences in other matters. And we don't need "representatives" anymore; we have the Net technology to represent ourselves." - Robert Anton Wilson

"There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but, in the end, they always fall - think of it. Always." - Mohandas Gandhi

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe? Expedience asks the question: Is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the question: Is it right? And a time comes when man must take a stand that’s neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it’s right.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face." — Michel Foucault

"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world." — Octave Mirbeau

"We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back." - John le Carre

“We need to work like the Zapatistas do, like ants who go everywhere no matter which political party the other belongs to. Zapatistas proved people can work together in spite of differences.” - Anna Esther Cecena of the FZLN (Mexican support committee of the Zapatistas)

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." - Albert Einstein

"The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you." - Immortal Technique

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." - Stephen Bantu Biko

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." - Mohandas Gandhi

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought". - John F. Kennedy

"There is no general legal duty to assist the police or to obey police instructions." - Rice v Connolly [1966] 2 QB 414

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." - George Bernard Shaw

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you... then you win." - Mohandas Gandh

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell

"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance." - Leonard Schapiro

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” - Benjamin Franklin

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Dr. Martin Luther King

"There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at points in history and creating a power that governments cannot suppress." - Howard Zinn

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." - George Orwell

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the virtue nor the wisdom to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorised, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolised, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; And to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." - PJ Proudhon

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07 February 2006

It was always going to be fairly unlikely that The Antagonist would let the seven month anniversary of the horrific events in London on the seventh day of the seventh month of 2005 (curiously, in numerology terms, also a seven (5 + 2 = 7)) pass without comment, but it very nearly happened. Only very nearly though, for seven months ago today was July 7th 2005, 7/7, the day when seven (7) explosions on London's transport system were reported and in which 52 (seven) were killed and 700 (seven) were injured, and understanding precisely what happened that day is becoming increasingly more important.

In the run up to the seven month anniversary of these events a number of seemingly unrelated but rather interesting things have happened.

First up there's the re-publication by an organ (the same organ that refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus H. Christ in April 2003) in Denmark (staunch U.S. supporters in Iraq) of some 'cartoons' that have, somewhat unsurprisingly given their content, upset the Muslim world for the various implicit suggestions contained there-in about the nature and essence of Islam. 'Re-publication', of course, being the operative word as the 'cartoons' were first published last September but nobody much saw fit to care back then.

The touchpaper was lit, all that was left to do was stand back and watch, even in London.

Notice the interesting backdrop to the 'protest'. Below is the same young man before he entered stage left, complete with much the same 'protest' backdrop.

Turns out this is none other than Omar Khayam, 22, of Bedford and he's a convicted crack dealer who was jailed in 2002 and released on licence last year, giving him plenty of time to rehearse his suicide bomber role as shown above and having served half his sentence. Khyam was allowed to stand behind the police van in full apparel, waiting for his cue, and then carry out his 'protest' with the protection of a police van behind him. At no stage in proceedings did the police interfere with his 'protest' and, just as quickly as he appeared, Omar Khyam has been removed from circulation slung back in jail to finish his sentence, but not before being allowed to publicly refuse to apologise and then publicly apologise for his actions.

Seven months on from seven-seven and Abu Hamza Al Masri is convicted of incitment to racial hatred and given a seven (yes, that number again) year term shortly after the BNP's Nick Griffin isn't convicted for anything at all and a hardcore bunch of around 20 Al Guraba 'hardcore' Islamic fundamentalists waving the same bunch of placards appear to have turned up for several days of 'protests' in London from which real Muslims have actively walked away.

Getting the picture yet?

But that's not all. The cream of the crop must be this little gem, aired by the BBC as part of last night's Newsnight coverage of the republication of the 'cartoons', the backlash against them and the bizarre appearance of the only Islamic-fundamentalist convicted of crack-dealing that The Antagonist has ever heard of.

The images below are exactly as captured from the Newsnight report last night which includes subtitles to ensure everyone gets the full six-sense propaganda experience. The voice-over rolls with: "Despite placards threatening death to those who oppose their views, when the driver of a van stopped to angrily criticise the demonstrators, a policeman took a hardline stance. "

The first words of the policeman to white-van man as the camera makes its way to the scene are, "Listen to me, listen to me. They have a right to protest, you let them do it...."

25 comments:

This is christoffer ziegler's website, http://www.zieler.dk/, and try though i might I cannot find the christ cartoons. And the cartoons he submitted were unsolicited and because of the nature of the MSM, unsolicited cartoons or journalism are very rarely used.

Though if you are looking for a comparison with the Danish cartoons, I would suggest that you try, http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1480744,00.html and the follow up storyhttp://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Greek-court-lifts-ban-on-Jesus-cartoon-book/2005/04/14/1113251690792.html

And if you had followed the story, the reasons the cartoons came to prominence was because a group of muslim cleric, among whom was Abu Laban, travelled the Arab world in an attempt to internationalise the issue.I ask you, when was the last time you heard any news from Denmark?And had they not gone out of the way to bring these, plus the other 3 'fake' cartoons no one would have paid any attention.After all, there was not this fuss when Mohammed appeared in SouthPark in 2001, a depiction that was seen by far more people than ever would have seen these cartoons.... the newspaper only has a circulation of 150,000.

As for the issue of the crack dealer.... you should come and read the local paper in Bradford.... not that I do, because it is awful.... but I do recall the case of the 'devout' muslim boy found with £20,000 worth of herion found under his mattress.... the parents had no idea what he was up to.... despite his apparently being partial to wearing a T-shirt with the slogan, @I am a drug dealer'.You'll have to check out the Telegraph and Argus website to find the exact details.... it happened about 18 months ago.

And as I understand it, the BNP case is going to re-trial. And though they said hateful things, they did not as Abu Hamza did, call on those listening, to murder, kill, injure etc.

Plus the group who protested are linked to the same group that have caused numerous disturbances, most notably at London Central Mosque when they shouted down a political meeting....http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2005/04/20/almuhajiroun_back_with_a_venge

So if your argument is that this is some vast conspiracy.... well I have to say I disagree.

Not least because the various elements are too unpredictable.

Plus it is rather tasteless to use numerology to make a nonsense point about the death of 52 people.

The first commentator has made some fair points. And I'm one of those people who believes you can 'prove' anything with numerology.

However...

In the space of a week or so we in the UK have been treated to...

- the Nick Griffin/ BNP Hate Trial- The Abu Hamza hate trial- the bungled religious hate legislation- the cartoon story and its aftermath

Coincidence?

And let's not forget that the fury over the Danish cartoons was driven, at least in part, by the fact that seven European newspapers reprinted them on the same day whilst maintaining that there was no co-ordinated decision to do so.

The question is not 'do you believe in a vast conspiracy theory' it is which vast conspiracy theory do you buy into?

Within hours of the Hamza verdict we've seen the British media connect Hamza to the 7/7 bombings, talk of secret terrorist training camps here in the UK mainland and talk of terrorist arsenals hidden in mosques. None of these exaggerations and fantasies bear up to much scrutiny.

So, please forgive me and many others for not buying into this insane nonsense and trying to make rational sense of what is really driving the current media and government agenda, particularly given the parallels with the mania that was stoked up prior to the illegal attack on Iraq

I concur that numerology can indeed 'prove' anything. I saw the notion of numerology in relation to July 7th raised in an article called 'Angry Young Men' that implied there might be some significance in the 0850 timings of three of the four simultaneous suicide bombs. No explanation was given regarding the significance of the 0947 explosion time of the fourth simultaneous suicide bomb so perhaps numerology is not all it's cracked up to be.

Eeore said: "Plus the group who protested are linked to the same group that have caused numerous disturbances, most notably at London Central Mosque".

Which, one might think, would be of some relevance as the business of disrupting places of worship is not generally the behaviour of devout, worshipful folk. That the same group appears to be at the forefront of such disruption and outrage must be noted.

The Newsnight footage also appeared to show and refer to the same 20 hardcore Al-Guraba folk touting the same placards, located both in a small pen outside the BBC (a 'protest' which I've not seen reported elsewhere) and in Kensington where the crack-dealing Islamic fundamentalist suicide bomber appeared in time to throw a few shapes in front of a police van before vanishing back off to the prison from whence he came.

Which term of his parole licence did he breach by going to a protest? Does this mean that the precedent has been set and that anyone in the increasingly long list of folk that are getting their collars felt by the ever growing long arm of the law can also be slung in jail for going to a protest? Marginally better than being shot seven times in the head but still not quite the most desirable situation. Remember the carol singers afearing arrest for carol singing in Parliament Square without the permission of the state that is actively legislating against anyone doing anything at all?

The same Newsnight footage from which the stills in this post are taken also showed a person unknown, covered from head to toe in Islamic dress, hastily scribbling out some of the incendiary placards. Perhaps nobody was meant to notice that the signs were being held and written by what appeared to be incredibly pale hands for someone that the footage would have us believe was a traditional Muslim of Asian origin. Maybe a trip to the tanning shop en route to the next demo is in order for the agent provocateurs.

ITV lunchtime news today ran a whole story about how two of the alleged bombers attended Hamza's lectures at the mosque in Finsbury Park, before adding as an afterthought towards the end of the piece that Scotland Yard had no evidence to support any link at all. The story, however, was all about the existence of a link.

Even if there is some non coincidental significance to that little quirk, chasing after it takes people nowhere and opens them up to criticism. Personally, I file stuff like that in my mental 'notes and queries' section and leave it be.

Plod was obviuosly under orders to allow the protest go ahead & not take any action to stir things up. the protestors were given free reign & free placards from a 'veiled'(unidentifiable) woman'. (Note the handwriting is the same in almost all the placards I have seen).

Maybe even the white van man was in on it as well?! Who knows?? The whole thing reeks of an enactment of pre-conceived arrangements, including the ensuing stirring up of a big Hoo Ha in the mainstraem media.

I do think 8.50am was deliberately chosen as a time BY THE BOMBERS. If 4 of you decide to blow yourselves up you will choose a time significant to you, n'est pas? I mentioned in 'Angry Young Men' an interesting discovery Chapter 8 vs 50 of the Qu'ran. The 4th bomber as we all understand was meant to be on the Northern line; he seems to have fucked up, due to not being able to get on the planned train, so he got a bus, & let the bomb off later than planned. Compris?

I reiterate, this is the bombers attaching significance to the time, not me.

However, you do love your number sevens, don't you? .

So hey, let's indulge you! here's some more number sevens... I have seven goldfish - my boyfriend was born on May 7th - I was c. 7 feet from the bomb - I got engaged seven months after 7/7 having been in the relationship for exactly 7 years - at one point there were 77 people in Kings Cross United - yada yada. I even smoked 7 cigarettes today - and there are SEVEN LEFT IN THE PACK! Ooooh, conspiracy!

Oh I forgot, I'm supposed to be a secret Government COINTELPRO agent, not a bomb survivor. Whooopsie!

Sinc: Stef did a very clever thing and provided some background information about other recent well staged demonstrations that make the cop/white van man bit of street theatre look like a very meagre effort indeed.

Even Daily Telegraph page 1 (6th Feb 2006) notes One of three veiled women - or at least people who appeared to be women - was seen writing placards and distributing them. Most were held by men who had also hidden their identity.

No arrests? Perhaps the police were better informed than their Iraqi counterparts; see http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/19/content_3514065.htm.

Whether white van man is staged or not, the fact that the police allowed it to be filmed without the usual 'move along, nothing to see here' and that Newsnight saw fit to transcribe the piece is what is interesting."They can say what they like and I can't?" followed by "freedom of speech?" plays straight into the hands of the BNP, whose suited thug, Nick Griffin, appeared oh-so respectable in his interview shortly after this piece was shown.Since when did we have to listen to fascists like the BNP commenting on Newsnight? Goebbels would be very proud of this latest piece from the ever-increasing propoganda machine that is the BBC.

you never know about the significance of numbers (or why they might dupe you into spending all your time making them significant)It's wikipedia incase the link does'nt work.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology#SevenSeven is considered to be a spiritual number because it is illusive and contains veils which must first be uncovered, one after another, before illumination will ultimately be found. Seven is said to be sacred, and this is evidenced by the fact that there are seven days in the week, ancient texts such as Genesis propose that the earth was formed in seven phases, the ancient solar system consisted of seven luminaries, human body consists of seven plexuses or chakras and some versions of the Kabbalah have seven sephiroth. While seven possesses qualities of dreaminess, spirituality and psychic awareness, negatively it can be dubious, deceptive and insincere.

Well I think the Metropolitan Police Force have come under enough attack recently recently and think it is high time people were MUCH more understanding of the pressure they have been under. The poor policeman in the pictures was trying his best to do a hard demanding job that I for one would not like to have to do, and the van driver was just looking for someone to talk to.(Iwondered if he was maybe gay and fancied him???)The policeman could of been a bit politer, but he was under great stress not to cause any more unrest.I think the person who said the numbers are significant is very silly, I mean I could say 9-11=-2-2+ ? = 7The answer is 9. 9 again.And then 9-2=7so if you ignore the first answer(-2) the next 2 answers are 7 and 7. It is well known that anybody can say anything on Wikipaedia so I would advocate not listening to it.

Maybe the next stage of human evolution is when hindsight is no longer required and such staged and manufactured events are seen immediately for what they are when they occur.

Even the most minor organisations utilise well documented marketing tricks and techniques, why does anyone think the largest and most powerful organisations, states and governments, would be any different?

While we're on the subject, it's also high time the meaningless words, 'Marketing' and 'Advertising' were replaced by their original and proper name, 'Propaganda'.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power." -- Edward Bernays, Propaganda

You don't have to create propaganda, just be selective, by allowing some wankers to carry some placards the job is done by itself. But hey, EVERYTHING is a conspiracy to you guys. Just what is your IQ? 7?

Politicians are lazy oiks, they wouldn't get their hands dirty when they can let the course of events run by itself. End of!

I disagree that all politicians are lazy oiks, but it is lazy to gloss them all as 'lazy'.I think many well intentioned people go into politics and probably do do their best to acheive what they wish to acheive.However, the conflicting demands of satisfying their constituents wishes, their own, and the party's 'goals' has to be at times a difficult balancing act, not to mention the doubtless frustrating awareness that they're being patronised with spin from their own party. They've all the time got to respond to the opposition's challenges, so The vehicle required to meet these demands is an all purpose dialect, a get out ofjail free lingo: Can't be easy.A course of events is not always something that just happens by itself: people have the power to intervene as and when to create or alter a course.'Conspiracy': a belief that there's more to things than meets the eye, call it whatever suits you.Personally I'd forget about IQs, mine improves with practice.People who dwell on IQs are people who have a need to feel superior.Sorry, this is all very disjointed, and not particulary or obviously relevant to 7/7, but anyway you too get my drift :) 00

Ok, I didn't mean they are lazy, but if you know an organised extremist group is coming to London to protest, it's much easier to sit back and watch things unfold. And not intervene, maybe lift one arm to inform the press. They didn't need to do anymore.

You seem to suggest this was all a set up, there are enough daft eejits out there to do their propaganda work for them.

I dont give a stuff about IQs, so heres another suggestion, maybe the bombers were in a school play once. You've guessed it... Snow White! :D

Maybe they - politicians - didn't know an 'organised group' was going to protest: I wouldn't be surprised if most politicians were the last to know. Maybe people were in 'Snow White': so what?I honestly don't know what's making you crack up, but you're not an egg presumably, so you're in control of your cracking-upness to a large extent. 00

When this photograph of a man dressed up as a suicide bomber was published around the world, it caused widespread disgust.

But today it has taken on a more significant meaning, for the man on the left is an older brother of the suspects arrested during last Friday's controversial terror raid in East London.

Mohammed Abdullah Hasnath was pictured standing next to Omar Khayam, who was dressed as a suicide bomber at a demonstration in London in February against the publication of satirised cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed.

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"The country's biggest force, the Metropolitan police || believe that large sections of the population have become increasingly politicised, and there is a growing sense that the current restrictions on demonstrations are too light." - The Guardian

"The bombers scattered identity and bank cards around the Tube carriages they targeted before placing their rucksacks on the floor and setting off the explosives. || Although they were damaged to some extent, they [the ID and bank cards] did not show the damage that would be expected if they were on the body of the bomber or in the rucksack, suggesting that in each case they had been deliberately separated by some distance from the actual explosion. || The bombers were not wearing the rucksacks at the time of the explosions, but had instead put them down on the floor of the bus and Tube trains." - The Telegraph

"But it [de Menezes execution MPS trial] was nearly derailed after an armed police raid on the home of a juror's ex-boyfriend in the second week of the case, in which the female juror's baby was taken away." - Daily Mail

"It is no exaggeration to say that at the time of the arrest there was not one shred of admissible evidence against Barot. The arrest was perfectly lawful - there were more than sufficient grounds, but in terms of evidence to put before a court, there was nothing. There then began the race against time to retrieve evidence from the mass of computers and other IT equipment that we seized. It was only at the very end of the permitted period of detention that sufficient evidence was found to justify charges. I know that some in the media were sharpening their pencils, and that if we had been unable to bring charges in that case, there would have been a wave of criticism about the arrests. Barot himself of course eventually pleaded guilty last year and received a 40-year sentence." – DAC Peter Clarke

The 7/7 narrative: "06.49: The 4 men .... each put on rucksacks || 07:14: .... The 4 then put on their rucksacks...." More....

"The [21/7] jury were told a further charge of conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life, faced by each man, was now being left off the indictment." – BBC

"Tony Blair and his family suffered the indignity of having to sleep on the floor and eat an Indian takeaway out of foil cartons on their last night in Downing Street, insiders have revealed." – The Times